3:29pm UK, Tuesday April 15, 2008

Max Mosley's future as Formula 1 president will be decided at a hearing in Paris in June.

It follows his failure at the High Court to prevent the News of the World from showing a 90-second video of him and five prostitutes on its website.

The NoW front page

The general assembly hearing of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) will include a vote of confidence by secret ballot.

It follows Mosley's request for a general meeting following lurid newspaper revelations, printed under the headline "F1 boss has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers".

Responding to the decision in the High Court, the Sunday newspaper says it will be putting the clip back on the site "forthwith".

Mr Justice Eady said the story in the NoW last month under had received massive worldwide coverage.

The judge said anyone wanting to access the video footage could easily do so.

"The dam has effectively burst.

"Although this material is intrusive and demeaning ... the granting of an order against this respondent at the present juncture would merely be a futile gesture."

Mr Mosley, who was not in court, is pursuing a claim for breach of privacy against News Group Newspapers, with a five-day trial expected in July.

The News of the World statement said: "Max Mosley's attempt to suppress the News of the World's video of his sordid activities has failed.

"The film will be placed back on the News of the World website forthwith.

"As the judge acknowledged, he was able to see only "very brief extracts" - less than two minutes - of the very much longer video.

"Had he seen it in its entirety, we are confident that he could not fail to recognise the Nazi connotation which Mr Mosley so strenuously denies."

The statement went on: "If, as he claims, this filmed orgy of sex and violence was not meant to be a sick fantasy based upon the brutalities of Nazi Germany, we must ask Mr Mosley the following questions.

1. Why are German military uniforms worn?
2. Why does he issue orders and threats in German to women who cannot speak German?
3. Why does he deliver and count out beatings in German to women who cannot understand German?
4. Why does he put on a German accent when speaking English?
5. Why are the victims of these beatings in German made to put on sinister striped uniforms?
6. Why the head lice inspections, the forced shaving of body hair and the sinister references to inmates being housed in "facilities"?

"We look forward to Mr Mosley's answers to all these questions".

Mr Mosley, the son of the notorious British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, is under growing pressure to resign as president of the FIA, motor racing's governing body.

The 67-year-old missed last weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix after the Crown Prince suggested in a letter it would be "inappropriate" for him to attend the event.